It's really sad to even think about, but the fact is that the McCain-Palin campaign is lying about a lot of things day in and day out. There were the allegations that Obama supported sex-ed for kindergartens, that Palin was against the bridge to nowhere, that Obama made sexist remarks about Palin, and just today that McCain evidently invented the blackberry - quite a feat for a man who couldn't turn on a computer to save his political life.
But I was just reading this piece by the Post's Fact Checker about how Palin and the campaign continue to claim that she was responsible for "oversee[ing] nearly 20% of the U.S. domestic supply of oil and gas," even though it has already been pointed out as completely false several times. In fact, Alaska's oil production has dropped it down to the #3 state in the country (behind TX and LA) and it only produces 3.5% of the country's overall energy. Also, it is hard to see how a supposedly small government / free market-championing republican "oversaw" a private industry as governor.
The media, to its credit, has pointed out again and again that the McCain campaign has been dishonest on countless issues in recent weeks. The Obama team is striking back hard (or at least harder), and even Karl Rove said this Sunday that their ads went too far and weren't completely true.
My question is: does it matter? Will the charges of dishonesty stick, or will the lies? I tend to think, in a nation with such a short attention span, the answer is the latter.
But I was just reading this piece by the Post's Fact Checker about how Palin and the campaign continue to claim that she was responsible for "oversee[ing] nearly 20% of the U.S. domestic supply of oil and gas," even though it has already been pointed out as completely false several times. In fact, Alaska's oil production has dropped it down to the #3 state in the country (behind TX and LA) and it only produces 3.5% of the country's overall energy. Also, it is hard to see how a supposedly small government / free market-championing republican "oversaw" a private industry as governor.
The media, to its credit, has pointed out again and again that the McCain campaign has been dishonest on countless issues in recent weeks. The Obama team is striking back hard (or at least harder), and even Karl Rove said this Sunday that their ads went too far and weren't completely true.
My question is: does it matter? Will the charges of dishonesty stick, or will the lies? I tend to think, in a nation with such a short attention span, the answer is the latter.
